This week's Free Read takes place in the world of the Four Courts; the urban fantasy series begun with Goblin Fires. Lead Me Not features one of the lovely Winter Royals: Talaith, Fourth Daughter of Oberon. If you've read Goblin Fires, this short story takes place before the events of that book.
Talaith recognized the
perfume the moment she stepped into one of the private alcoves backstage. Jasmine
and hibiscus: a scent all at once nostalgic, bittersweet, and arousing. Even in
the pounding atmosphere of Frostbite, the New York nightclub owned and operated
by the Winter Court—her court, in
other words—that subtle scent stole all of Talaith's attention.
"Kymera," she
mused in a tone of playful exasperation. "What a pleasant surprise."
"I was in town,"
came the husky reply. Talaith let her gaze wander to the corner of the small
room, where a full-length mirror stood between two luxurious leather chairs, and
saw the gorgeous leggy fae sitting sprawled out in one of them. Kymera's feet
dangled over one arm of the chair as she leaned, casually regal, over the
other. She propped her chin up on one hand, letting her lavender eyes roam over
Tal's dark, winter-fae skin, which Talaith knew was sheened with sweat from
dancing.
"I simply had to stop by and see my favorite protégée."
"Of course,"
Tal grinned, and sauntered across the space to join the other woman. Ky watched
the slow roll of Tala's hips as she walked, giving the Winter Lady a sly smile
of appreciation. It was the look of a smug feline eyeing dinner. Tal was
familiar with the look. It wasn't one she particularly minded.
"So do you,"
Tal sighed with a smile. She normally didn't like the reminder of her royal
rank, though. Being the youngest of the Winter Ladies meant she didn't have to act like a royal, and that was
the main reason she spent all her time in the human world in the first place.
Kymera was an Unbridled fae, a daughter of the elder faerie Magotine, a
fearsome old witch. Kymera may have looked human—abnormally, beautifully human—but the slim, slender,
graceful creature was nothing at all like a mortal at heart.
Tal held out her arms
and the tall fae woman stood to embrace her.
"It's been too
long," Ky breathed, nuzzling her face in the shiny, steely-blue mane of
Tal's hair.
"Oh, yes,"
Talaith agreed wryly. "And just whose fault is that?"
Ky looked chagrined,
though the hangdog expression diminished a bit by the quirky little twitch at
the corners of her mouth, trying to become a grin.
“Oh, you are good with that look,” Tala laughed. “Almost like you’ve had practice. Just how many women have you left behind
broken-hearted and pining after you this time, Kymera?”
“There's only ever been
one I cared to come back to.”
Talaith snorted. “Please.”
“I’m serious,” Kymera purred. She gave into the grin, turning her guilty
look into one of mischief, and broke the hug.
As she put a little space between them she took Tala’s hands in her own
and bent down to meekly kiss the dark lines of the two tattoos—clannish
hieroglyphs, one reading blizzard,
the other frost—on the inside of
either of Tala’s wrists. Ky’s own
matching set—hers reading smolder and
burn—were clearly turned up to be seen
alongside.
“We fit together,
princess,” she murmured softly.
Tala’s own smile
softened a little. “Yes,” she said. “We did.”
She’d known from the
beginning that Kymera wasn’t long term material. Unbridled fae women weren’t by their nature
the kind to settle down. Even those who believed the denizens of Thairy were
nothing but myth and legend could still tell you that. Tal’s involvement with the lovely faerie had
been about fun, frivolity, thrills, good sex, but never the long term. Tala had been
okay with that.
As was perhaps classic
of faerie lore, Kymera had seduced Talaith away from the comforts of home—Oberon's
frozen castle, Vinterreich—when she’d been young. She’d run off from the cold
burdens of the Court on an extended vacation—one she still enjoyed—and toured
with the ravishing, unearthly daughter of Magotine, and she’d never regretted
it. Ky took Tal under her wing, taught
her to dance in a blue winter's flame, conjure the wind, how to make music, how
to kiss, how to make love. She’d been
Tala’s first, but hardly her only, and even at the height of their passionate
affair they hadn't precisely been exclusive.
Ky brought other women to their bed and Tala loved them too, with a blithe
and carefree lustiness that was the purview of the fae, innocent of jealousy or
hurt. She and Ky loved each other,
surely, but there had never been any expectation of forever.
To see Ky again—to
smell the exotic and exciting scent of her smooth, white skin and her short,
emerald-green hair—it felt very, very good. Years
had passed since they'd seen one another...decades of time, long enough
even to a faerie.
Of course, as usual,
she knew that naughty grin on Ky’s face was going to mean nothing but trouble.
Tal gently slipped out
of her ex’s grasp and sidled past her to plop down on the long leather sofa
that took up the other side of the private room. “It’s so good to see you, Ky. But you should
know things have changed for me…”
Ky joined her, sinking
down to the floor in front of her and resting her head casually on Tala’s
knees. “Have they?”
“Yes.” Talaith flashed
her a careful smile. “And I think you
already know that.”
“Who is she?” Kymera
asked. No hint of surprise—or
discouragement—in her voice.
“A woman,” Tala said,
affecting a nonchalance to say she wasn’t particularly inclined to go into
detail. What she and Ky shared had been magical—literally—but
in the end it had also been casual and wanton.
What she shared with Reagan—the somber half-goblin Knight, intense and oh, so deliciously passionate—was not.
At least, Talaith hoped it was not.
“Introduce me?” Ky
pressed. There was glimmer of familiar
wickedness in her eyes. “Perhaps the
three of us could share a bottle of wine?
Get better acquainted…”
She waggled her
eyebrows. Tala couldn’t help but give a
silent chuckle—Reagan might not precisely be against an evening of sport with Talaith and her ex—but she shook
her head.
“Can’t. She’s out of town.”
That naughty glimmer
grew brighter. “Oh? I guess that just leaves you and me—”
“Ky,” Tala interrupted
sharply. “No.”
She had the sudden idea
that Ky knew about Reagan, and maybe furthermore knew how deep Tala's feelings
had grown for the Knight. And she might just be angling to cause some trouble.
“No?” Ky’s face
fell. “No? Oh, princess, why not?”
“I can’t. I love you dearly, Kymera, but I’m seeing
someone and I...I'd like to have something more
with her.”
The other woman peered. The petulant look of a capricious faerie
sparkled in her eyes.
“She’s special, is she?”
“She could be,” Talaith
replied. “We’ll have to see. But the fact
is I want to see, and I don’t
want to ruin the chance by doing anything that might make her doubt my
sincerity.”
Ky’s careful eyes
searched her. She put her pale hands
gently on Tal’s knees, fingers tapping thoughtfully.
“Have you taken her to your bower?” she asked.
“Not your business,” Talaith said.
“Since when are you so
modest? With me, of all fae?”
“Since I realized that
she is important to me,” she answered softly.
Kymera fell quiet a
moment, scrutinizing her, musing it over.
“But...she doesn't feel
the same.”
“Ky!” she scolded,
pushing the woman’s hands away. “Stop
it. She...I'm not sure how she feels.”
“You're only friends
with benefits, aren't you?” Kymera purred, and she gently nudged Talaith’s
knees apart to scoot closer, leaning her head against one dark, slender
thigh. “Poor princess, I've never seen
you pine for anyone before. You must
be feeling so very lonely…”
“Ky,” she warned.
Kymera gazed up at her,
the picture of innocence. One hand
stroked Tal’s other thigh, down the length of her bare, slender calf left naked
by the alluring club attire Talaith wore.
“Come on, Tal,” she
whispered. “Old time’s sake. Your new friend never has to know.”
“No, she doesn’t,”
Talaith said. “But that doesn’t change
anything for me. I'm with Reagan.”
“Reagan, is it?” Kymera said brightly. “The Knight of the Autumn Court? Oh, Tal, I
thought I was your knight!”
Tala gave another
good-natured snort. “Hardly. You’re a devil, Kymera, through and through,
and you always were.”
Kymera bounced up to
her knees and wrapped her arms around Talaith’s waist.
“Yes, but you always
liked me that way.”
She nuzzled Tala’s
naked belly, kissing dark skin affectionately, pausing briefly to toy with the diamond
navel piercing that dangled from the Winter Princess's belly button, flicking
it with her tongue. Talaith couldn’t
help the little shiver that went through her.
“Tal,” Ky murmured. “You know
how much you mean to me, how good we are to each other.”
“We were good,” Tal agreed, gently putting
her hands on Ky’s shoulder to push her back.
“Are you mad at me for
going away?”
Talaith laughed. “I’m not mad at you for anything!”
“Then let’s have some
fun together before you settle down with this new girl for good. You two aren't exclusive yet, not really, so
it’s not really a betrayal…”
“Maybe not to you,” Tal
said softly. "I...want to see how she feels—about us—before I do anything
else."
Kymera took Talaith’s
hand in both of hers and leaned her cheek against it. Her lavender eyes were longing and full of
wicked encouragement.
“I won't
feel bad stealing you away from any other woman,” Ky said, kissing her
hand. “Especially not one who won't
share your passions for our kind of fun.”
“It's not that, Ky, I'm—I'm
just waiting to be sure of things...before I make a move.”
“Then I’ll make a move for you.”
One of Ky’s hands
dropped back to Tal’s thigh and started traveling slowly upwards.
Talaith slapped the
hand away and shot to her feet, tumbling Ky out of her lap.
“I’ve asked you
nicely,” she said.
Ky bounced back quick
and grabbed Tala’s wrists, dancing her backwards until Tal’s back met the wall. Her lips came down on Talaith’s, not hard or
harsh but insistent, and before she could stop herself Talaith uttered a happy
little moan, short but unmistakable. Her
ex’s lips were faintly sweet, like the summertime wine they had shared when
they’d been together years before, bright and light and dizzyingly good.
As the kiss ended,
Kymera smirked.
“Don't make me beg,
lover,” she said. “Please, haven't
you missed me? What I do to you?”
“Shut up,” Talaith
muttered. Her fingers fluttered up to
her mouth. “Ky, you’re terrible.”
“No, I’m good, and you know that from
experience.”
Ky kissed her
again. Tala closed her eyes and pressed
back out of habit, her breasts pressing eagerly against Ky’s own. She’d always loved Ky’s slim, tiny little
breasts, so modest that when she arched her back they were barely more than
smooth, tender buds...topped by pert, pink nipples...
“Mmm, stop!” she gasped, pulling away. Ky let her break the kiss but slid her body
in closer, tightening her arms around Talaith’s waist.
“We’re not going to do
this,” Talaith insisted. Her body was
already responding to Kymera, though, growing eager and a little drunk from the
scent of hibiscus and the taste of wine.
“I think we both know
we are.”
“I’m with someone else.”
Kymera gave her a
careful, studious look, smile never fading.
“Talaith of Oberon's Court,”
she murmured, chiding. One hand slid
down from Tal’s waist to her hip, then her thigh, and then under her skirt. Talaith
swallowed a thick lump in her throat as she felt her former lover’s fingertips
press gently down against her sex.
“Didn’t you just say
you loved me?” Kymera asked.
“Uh-huh,” Talaith said. Ky’s fingers began to move in gentle circles,
sending mellow, sweet swells of pleasure through her.
“So you tell me. You tell me right now, tell me if you love
this Reagan girl more than me.”
With her free hand
Kymera tilted Tala’s chin up to look her deep in the eyes. The hand under the skirt never stopped its
blissful kneading.
“I mean it, princess,”
she purred. Her hand moved slower,
pressing a little more firmly. “If you
really, really want me to stop, just
tell me you love her more than me. If
you really do, I promise I’ll back off.
You have my word of honor.”
Talaith laughed a
little breathlessly.
“God, Ky, you’re such a
bitch.”
“Is that a no,
then? You don’t love her more than me?”
“Damnit,” she
said. “Right now I kind of hate you.”
She raised up her arms
and wrapped them around Kymera’s neck, arching against the other woman’s slim
body to kiss her in return . Kymera laughed.
“Oh, Tal… you could
never hate me.”
She stopped her kneading
of Talaith’s pussy for just one second, slipping her hand under Talaith’s knee
to hoist one long leg up over her own hip.
Then her fingers returned to their gentle attention, this time teasing
the wetness between the young woman’s pretty folds. Tal kissed her again and again, pressing hips
closer to let her ex in deeper, tightening her leg around Kymera’s waist.
“There, now,” Ky
murmured. “Didn’t I tell you you’d enjoy
it? I’m going to go real slow now so you
can savor every second.”
Talaith moaned and
rolled her hips gently with Kymera’s motions.
Kymera kneaded the sweet, stiff little pearl of Tala’s clit between two
fingers, playing loving. Obviously she
hadn’t forgotten how Talaith liked to be touched: she adopted her old, familiar
rhythm until finally sliding two long fingers into the wet, warm opening of
Talaith’s cleft.
“Mm,” she murmured
happily, withdrawing her fingers again and bringing them to her lips to taste. “Mm-mmm,
I’ve always so loved the taste of you, Tala… your girlfriend is going to be
sorry she missed this. She is really missing out.”
“Ky,” Tal snapped. “If you
talk about her like that again, I’m throwing you out.”
“Ah, but then who would
take care of all this wonderful pent-up need?”
Kymera whispered with a quiet little laugh.
“Just go back to what
you were doing,” Talaith growled.
“I’ll do even better.”
Kymera kissed her—she
could taste her own bitterness on those sweet lips now—before gently pressing
her closer to the wall, sliding slowly down her body, pausing to nudge aside
the flimsy silk covering Tal’s breasts and kissing each dark, flush nipple like
greeting old friends. She lingered there
a moment, kissing, stroking pert little tips with her devilishly pointed
tongue, giving them each an affectionate, playfully hard little suckle. Then she slid lower, kissing a trail down Talaith’s
bare stomach, pulling down the skirt and lifting Tala’s left leg again to rest
over her own shoulder.
Tala had been with
several lovers. Not one of them—except maybe
Reagan—had ever been as good at this part as Kymera was. Her tongue explored Talaith with eager,
genuine, almost worshipful hunger; she slowly traced the delicate contours of glistening
labia—a little laugh escaped her as she passed playfully over the two fine gold
rings that dangled there, a pair of adornments she herself had urged the Winter
Princess to adopt. Tal didn’t need
Kymera to say out loud what she was almost certainly thinking: no matter whom
Talaith welcomed into her bower, as long as those rings remained it would
always be Ky’s rightful territory. The
woman took one of them carefully between her teeth and gave the gentlest,
gentlest tug; Talaith let out a quiet, happy moan in response. One hand rested on the top of Ky’s head,
running slowly through short emerald strands.
Ky’s tongue circled
Tala’s excited little clit, loving in its adoration, slow to curl over every
part of it. She dabbed her tongue
against it, bobbing the tender stiff bead with an eager rhythm, fast-fast-slow,
fast-fast-so slow. Talaith’s whole body gave a surge of
pleasure in response: she grew wetter, ready, eager for tongue or fingertips to
slip inside of her, make the sensation complete. As though Ky had read her mind, the woman
slowly stroked Tal’s glistening pussy with two fingers again, and slowly
slipped them into her, teasing as they curled against the sensitive inner flesh
and gently slid out again. Tala groaned.
“Still hate me?” Ky
whispered before flicking the tip of her tongue playfully over Talaith’s
clit.
“I’ll probably hate you
a good long time for this,” Talaith replied.
“Just keep it up, will you?”
“I brought a little
surprise for you.”
Ky reached with her
free hand to a brown satchel she’d evidently brought with her. From it she pulled a long, smooth glass
object, the top of it rounded out into an unmistakable shape.
“Oh, fuck,” Talaith breathed. “I don’t believe you.”
Ky chuckled again and
returned her careful attention to Tala’s clitoris.
“Believe me,” she
murmured between strokes of her talented tongue. “It’s one of the tamer gifts I could have
brought.”
She withdrew her
fingers and Tal sucked in a loud breath as cool, slick glass slid into
her. The toy was overlarge for the thing
it mimicked but only pleasantly so, hard in her tight cunt as Ky worked it
steadily in and out, in and out, in time with her indulgent licking.
“Yes…” Talaith murmured softly.
She pressed herself closer, feeling the toy slide deeper as Ky gave her
a teasing twirl of the tongue. Oh… it
felt so very, very good to have Kymera’s kisses on her again, to feel the hard
weight of the toy invading her excited cunt.
“Faster,” she whispered
urgently.
“If you like it,”
Kymera whispered, “you can keep it after I’m done. Maybe your girlfriend will like it, t—”
“I told you to stop
talking about her!” Talaith hissed, her breath heavy and harsh. Her fingertips
crackled with winter ice where they dug deep into Ky's emerald hair.
“But I was being nice,” Kymera pouted.
“Please,” Tal murmured,
“focus… on what… you are doing.”
“Aw, are you ready to
come, princess? I wanted to drag it out
more.”
“You are getting higher
and higher on my shit list, Kymera.”
This made the other
woman laugh out loud, a gorgeous, smooth alto sound. She consented, though, quickening her pace
and descending on Tal’s clitoris again with elated hunger. Tala gave a quavering sound of encouragement
and rocked her hips in time with Ky’s thrusts.
Soon enough the first tingling promise of climax kindled deep inside her
like a little flame.
“Oh,” she moaned, digging her fingers deep into Kymera’s hair. “Oh, Ky… yes… more…”
Kymera hadn’t forgotten
her former lover’s passions at all. She
knew the change in pitch signalling the sure crest of orgasm, recognized the
pace of Tala’s thrusts as they grew more frantic. She brought Talaith to her limit, matching
pace to the frantic rhythm of her lover’s body and sliding the glass deep into
Tala’s cunt once, twice, three times just as the younger woman arched her back
with a wild cry. She started coming, and
Kymera replaced her toy with her tongue to taste the sweet rush of the girl’s
orgasm, pulling the Winter Princess hard against her.
“Oh,” Talaith gasped, gripping
Kymera even closer. “Oh… oh…”
"Oh, we're not
done yet, princess..."
Kymera pulled her close
and led her to the leather sofa. She sat Talaith upon it and then made a show
of licking the slick glass now wet with faerie cum and—wickedly—frosted from
the contact with the Princess of the Wintertime Court. Kymera ran her tongue
all over it, like an obscene icy treat. With one hand she shed her own long,
shimmering leggings, while the other slowly let the phallus slide down her body
until it came to rest at her own loins. The finely-crafted cock head still
pointed at Tala.
Talaith—still heaving—knew
what came next, but it still made her shiver to see. Clever fae fingers infused
the glass phallus with flowing magic. Unbridled magic, the color of deepest,
darkest forest shadows, sparkling with hints of green light. It molded and
changed the little toy until it became something both of them could enjoy at once: two beautiful, burgeoning rounded
glass heads on opposite ends, with a black lattice-work of vines securing it
over Kymera's hips. Ky moaned as she slid her side of the glass toy cock—it was
the frozen color of her magic, in deep contrast to the clear side meant for Tal—into
her own beautiful bare pussy, settling it with a wriggle and a little moan as
it slid into place.
"Now, you have to
do your part," she whispered to Talaith, and with one hand she guided the
princess's head forward until Tala opened her mouth to receive the smooth cock.
"Get it nice and wet, my lady...you're going to want it very, very slick, because in a minute I'm going
to forget you're nobility."
Tala sucked the smooth,
shapely glass: cold, still, and like ice. Delicious, to one like her, a fae of
Winter Court. She moved her head up and down on it, moaning as Ky gently moved
her hips. The wild faerie's eager sounds of pleasure said she was enjoying this
just as much. And why not? There was a sweet, slick toy sliding in and out of her, as well.
"Stand up,
baby," Ky finally purred, and Tala did, sliding her body up the length of
Kymera's, rubbing breasts against breasts. Ky kissed her, then took her hands
and guided her into place: the wild fae led Tal aside and sat on the couch,
letting the gorgeous glass cock spring up from her lap. Then, taking Talaith by
the hips, she pulled her down to sit upon it. Talaith moaned, very loudly, as the wet, beautifully cold shape of the head pressed against
her tight, resisting asshole.
"You're so
dirty!" she whispered at Kymera. None of her other lovers, not even
Reagan, ever did this.
Ky nudged the head of
the toy up, gently at first, probing, easing Tala's body to yield. Each firm
but gentle push coaxed Talaith to open, and finally, in a wild, blatantly scandalous sensation, the rigid, cool
cock slid deep inside of her, and Talaith could not help the cry of wicked
pleasure that escaped her.
"Oh, fuck, Tal," Kymera whispered in her
ear. The faeries gentle hands reached round to cup Talaith's generous breasts
and squeeze them as she moved her hips, testing Tala's resistance, moaning as
their rhythm stirred for her as well.
Talaith writhed,
undulating herself up and down on Kymera's lap. The cock was hard, and it
parted her mercilessly. She could say it even hurt, a little, but the hurt was
easy to forget in the wave of wretched, beautiful pleasure.
Ky's hands slipped down
and parted Talaith's thighs. She lifted them so Tal's legs were propped up by
her own knees, the princess's pretty cunt spread and open as the phallus
penetrated her ass. Deft little fingers dipped down to spread slick wet cum,
and Talaith went tense when Ky's hands again discovered her clitoris, throbbing
little pearl, and started to stroke it in time with her thrusts.
"Yes..." she
murmured in Talaith's ear. Tal grasped at her own breasts, arching to receive each
hard, unyielding stroke. Ky's hands, strumming her clitoris, teasing her pussy,
softened her; her thighs tight but her loins relaxing, she welcomed Kymera's
illicit fucking, and their heavy, gasping sounds of pleasure mingled between
them.
"Oh, yes, open to
me," Ky muttered through gritted teeth. She pumped harder—Talaith thought
the Unbridled fae must be getting close, but her own orgasm was building too
underneath the assault of cock and fingertips. She was giddy with the overload
of sensation: so full, so impossibly full and yet her pussy so empty, so
hungry, her clitoris overwhelmed with wicked thrills.
"I'm going to
come," she gasped. She wasn't sure Kymera heard her, and when she tried to
repeat it she choked on the words, arching again. Her body jerked as the first
jolt of climax hit her, and the gush of her fluids wet Ky's questing hands. Ky
didn't stop, though: she fucked even harder, a desperate, mean bout of thrusts, and Talaith's body tightened with
resistance...which only made the crazy pleasure more.
"Oh, Ky!" she
screamed. The whole club might have heard her but she didn't give a damn; she
wouldn't have given a damn anymore if Reagan were there in the room with them,
witnessing her desperate, wicked depravity.
"Ky—fuck—oh, yes—"
There was no third
orgasm, only a crazy spinning-off into a realm where the pleasure was too intense and she couldn't take
anymore. She might have screamed again but Ky did it for her, and she felt the
wild fae bucking, halting, and bucking against the cock, gasping and cursing,
coming hard.
Talaith panted, falling
back against her ex. Neither of them moved to slide apart, and the glass
phallus felt too big, too demanding, especially after the hard, jolting round
of climax. Kymera kissed Talaith right below her ear, and teased her with one,
two more gentle little bumps, until Tal finally had to pry herself free. She
shook all over; her head felt light and dizzy, as if she were downright high.
She slid down onto the couch and draped herself over Kymera's body.
“I told you I’d take care of you, princess,”
Ky purred. “Mmm… one might almost think
you missed me.”
“Uh-huh.”
Tal’s voice was ragged.
“With everything I throw.”
Kymera smirked. She leaned over and kissed Talaith on the
lips.
“Feel better now?”
“No,” Tal said, running a hand through her hair. “I feel like an idiot. Damnit, Ky, you and your goddamn fae tricks…”
“Don’t be so hard on
me.”
With a wave of her hand
the toy was gone, and they sat together on the couch—both of them trembling.
She wrapped her arms around Talaith and pulled her close.
“You said yourself that
you loved me,” she murmured. She planted
a kiss on the top of Tal’s head. “You
know no other girl is ever going to take my place.”
Ky tilted Tala’s chin
up, looking her deep in the eyes.
“You didn’t do anything
wrong, you know. We’ve always been made for each other, Talaith. We fit together.”
Talaith tried to hold
onto her anger. No use, though: Kymera
was right: they fit.
“When does your
girlfriend come back?” Ky asked softly.
“Don’t know. A few days.”
She didn’t want to
think about Reagan. Just imagining her
made Talaith feel miserable.
Kymera kissed her on
the head again. Then, she kissed her on
the mouth, a long, slow kiss.
“So… why don’t we make
the most of our time together,” she murmured, “before we have to say goodbye
again?”
It was a dangerous
proposition. It was dangerous and
selfish and terrible, all around. It was
very, very fae. And she knew it. She knew Kymera
knew it, too.
It wasn’t fair.
But when she looked at
her former lover—her beautiful lavender eyes, her pleading, impish and innocent
face…
“Okay,” she whispered
hoarsely. Ky smiled and kissed her
again, and she kissed back, running a hand along Kymera’s cheek.
“Just… never let Reagan find out.”
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part of Coming Together Through the Storm
This week's Free Read takes place in the world of the Four Courts; the urban fantasy series begun with Goblin Fires. Lead Me Not features one of the lovely Winter Royals: Talaith, Fourth Daughter of Oberon. If you've read Goblin Fires, this short story takes place before the events of that book.
Talaith recognized the perfume the moment she stepped into one of the private alcoves backstage. Jasmine and hibiscus: a scent all at once nostalgic, bittersweet, and arousing. Even in the pounding atmosphere of Frostbite, the New York nightclub owned and operated by the Winter Court—her court, in other words—that subtle scent stole all of Talaith's attention.
Read the first in the Chronicles of the Four Courts:
Reagan's love for her princess
runs deeper than anyone knows...
Looking for more lesbian romance?
More F/F titles by Brantwijn Serrah:
A courtesan's love... A vampire's curse. |
Rhiannon gets a delicious surprise in "Her Dark Rewards", part of Crimson, Volume 2 |
Kylie's looking for something different in "Graveyard Games", part of Crimson, Volume 1 (link coming soon) |
The sweltering heat of summer won't stop things from getting steamy in "Heat of the Night", part of Coming Together Through the Storm |
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